How long did the Manicoré fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 August 2017 and 14 August 2017: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,037 hectares (30.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Manicoré (3,063 ha, 0.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

BR · Brazil · 2017-08-06 → 2017-08-14

Manicoré fire, 6 August 2017 Manicoré

Out · last detection 15 Aug 2017, 05:54 UTC

The fire started on 6 August 2017 in Manicoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,037 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 433th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 977 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

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Burnt area: 3,037ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 9days; 6 Aug 2017 – 14 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 6 Aug; 2017
Heat detections: 202; in a single hotspot: 74 MW
Danger at start: 40; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 292MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Aug14 Aug

Play back 15 Aug 2017

How it evolved, day by day

6 Aug 8 Aug 10 Aug 14 Aug

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high

33km/h · peak gust

24%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.9 mm on 17 Aug.

This area had burned before

60% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,817 ha in 2016.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 1.9% of the area of London (30 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Manicoré where it started

3,063 ha reached on 6 Aug

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
6 Aug	36.6 °C	27 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
7 Aug	37.7 °C	24 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
8 Aug	38.3 °C	32 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
9 Aug	36.7 °C	36 %	29 km/h	1.2 mm	High 28
10 Aug	36.3 °C	46 %	33 km/h	7.5 mm	Low 6
11 Aug	31.0 °C	68 %	27 km/h	8.4 mm	Very low 1
12 Aug	32.8 °C	54 %	30 km/h	1.4 mm	Very low 4
13 Aug	34.2 °C	50 %	26 km/h	1.5 mm	Low 7
14 Aug	34.5 °C	49 %	27 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 14
15 Aug after	37.3 °C	38 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
16 Aug after	35.2 °C	43 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
17 Aug after	30.4 °C	70 %	27 km/h	15.9 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 30 Jul 2017

After · 21 Aug 2017

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 202Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Manicoré fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 August 2017 and 14 August 2017: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,037 hectares (30.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Manicoré (3,063 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 193 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 202 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.

Where it burned